Police: Man seen walking naked in Flagler Beach

A 46-year-old Palm Coast man is accused of walking down Central Avenue in Flagler Beach wearing nothing but a green baseball cap, according to a Flagler Beach Police report.

JULIE MURPHYSTAFF WRITER

FLAGLER BEACH — A 46-year-old Palm Coast man is accused of walking down Central Avenue in Flagler Beach wearing nothing but a green baseball cap, according to a Flagler Beach Police report. Police picked up James William Wise at 10:37 p.m. Monday after a resident reported seeing a naked man walking down the street, the report states. The witness, who is not named in the report, told Officer Dennis Lashbrook that he saw the man with numerous tattoos wearing nothing but a hat, "completely naked and exposing his genitals," the report states.The witness asked the man if he was OK and got no verbal response, Lashbrook wrote. Instead, the man ran off between houses on North 17th Street "before reappearing by his truck with his shorts on."When Lashbrook arrived "the defendant had on a blue pair of see-through shorts." The witness later identified Wise as the same man he had seen earlier."Upon doing an inventory search of the defendant's vehicle, I located a Flagler County Fire and Rescue firefighter's jacket neatly folded and tucked up under the defendant's backseat," Lashbrook said.Wise told Lashbrook he found the jacket by his Palm Coast home but had not had time to turn it in or report to law enforcement in the three days that had passed since he found it.Flagler County Fire Rescue Chief Don Petito said by phone Tuesday that Wise does not work for him and the jacket had not made its way to his office yet."Typically, the (firefighter's) name would be written on the inside but sometimes you can't see it," Petito said. "We are trying to determine whose it is and what happened to it, that it was lost."Wise was booked into the Flagler County Inmate Facility and later released on $750 bail.